Laraine Day

 Laraine Day (October 13, 1920 – November 10, 2007)

As a leading lady, she was paired opposite major film stars including Lana Turner, Cary Grant, and John Wayne. n 1937, Day debuted onscreen in a bit part in Stella Dallas. Shortly afterwards, she won lead roles in several George O'Brien Westerns at RKO Pictures, in which she was billed as Laraine Hays and then Laraine Johnson. In 1939, she signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and became popular and well-known (billed as Laraine Day) as Nurse Mary Lamont, the title character's fiancee in a string of seven Dr. Kildare movies beginning with Calling Dr. Kildare (1939), with Lew Ayres in the title role. Her roles for other studios were often far more stimulating than those MGM gave her, including a prominent supporting part in the Irish melodrama My Son, My Son! (1940). She also starred in the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Foreign Correspondent (1940) with Joel McCrea, and the psychological mystery The Locket (1946) with Robert Mitchum, Brian Aherne, and Gene Raymond. In 1941, she was voted the number one "star of tomorrow" in Hollywood. Day died from undisclosed causes on November 10, 2007 at age 87, and is interred at Forest Lawn-Hollywood Hills.